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not enough of a spotlight is shown on Ratthi and Gurathin in Fugitive Telemetry. SecUnit isn't allowed to hack government security systems so it invites its Two Best Guy Friends to come watch it break into a transport ship, AND BOTH OF THEM ARE LIKE "sure thing, sounds fun" ?? They put up the weakest "are you sure this is a good idea?" argument but otherwise just do what SecUnit needs (which is stand in front of security cameras and act as character witnesses). SecUnit's narration also implies that it would have just let its Two Best Guy Friends tag along for the rest of its murder investigation, for funsies, except the cops said no (booooo).

later THE SAME DAY, SecUnit (famously allergic to asking for help) messages their group chat "I need help" with ZERO context, which gives Ratthi and Gurathin such a shock they almost knock their table over. then it facetimes them from the NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM to ask which of these Preserved Artifacts works best for jetting out into space? and Ratthi and Gurathin are like, "that one with the red tags, but ummm why?"

"don't worry about it," it says, "I'll tell you later."

then it HANGS UP and they don't hear from it for the rest of the day.

just a day in the life.

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That wasn’t a conclusion that told us much of anything. It was like saying that they had wanted ART because it was pretty.

[ Network Effect ch 12 ]

Hey, can our SecUnit come over instead? It just wants to stand in your transport for say, three minutes. No, no reason, it just enjoys looking at other people’s ships.

[ Network Effect ch 11 ]

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Even when sarcastic, Murderbot’s not beating the “attracted to spaceships” allegations

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Headcanon:

ART calls Seth Dad to annoy him

ART calls Martyn Dad to suck up to him

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back on pushing my Ratthi Murderbot best friends agenda

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Murderbot internally when someone shows it respect/gratitude/admiration:

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what i imagined when 2.0 started watching sanctuary moon in murderbot's processing space

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I know show probably implies murderbot literally missing episodes, but what if it missing memories of watching them. And what if this memories somehow stuck with gurathin, so now he have to watch all of sanctuary moon, because even if he hates it, the half knowledge of what's going on is driving him crazy.

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imagine you're a highly skilled scientist and your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you call a mechanic to come help you fix it and the mechanic is like "I can't help you but I can tell you about my special interest favorite tv show" and you're like "that's actually not helpful at all and also now I'm having a panic attack" and then the mechanic is like "wait that actually reminds me of an episode of my special interest favorite tv show I am going to tell you about it now because I can" and you're like "please no I actively cannot breathe" and then the mechanic tells you about it anyway because they're neurodivergent and ridiculous and you're like "wait why this helping why are you so gentle and sweet underneath your off putting exterior why are you the best person I've ever met" and then the mechanic is like "I have come up with the solution to your car troubles" and you're like "great I love you let's hear it" and they're just like

"invasive spinal surgery."

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Murderbot + Onion Headlines [2/?]

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see you soon on sanctuary moon

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in the show, Preservation isn’t doing as well financially as it seems to be in the books. the show also added that Gurathin was the one who insisted on buying SecUnit. I wonder if he used his own money to purchase it?

(in the books, Mensah is the one who buys it, but Preservation doesn’t use currency, so I assume she used the government’s money, basically)

because based on what Mensah said about the status of Preservation, convincing the councilors to purchase a SecUnit would’ve been a hard sell. and Gurathin might have a stash of hard currency from his time in the Corporation Rim.

maybe he was holding onto it just in case his new home on Preservation was too good to be true. I wonder if he used his emergency savings to purchase SecUnit, letting go of his safety net and fully committing to his future with Preservation.

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diversity win! dr. gurathin's corporation rim drug dealer is gay!

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The ancient space escape bag from fugitive telemetry elicited a similar emotion when I got to it in the audiobook to when a favorite bit character shows up in a reread. yayyyy bag is here i fucking love Bag

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I absolutely adore the intro 😍

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Dr.Gurathin learns the importance of .Zip files.